Nick_C

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by Nick_C 13y ago
My new PVR can play at 2x speed with audio adjusted to sound normal. It is a godsend. You can really churn through the 30 minutes of bullshit to extract the 5 minutes of gold in double quick time (pun!).
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by Nick_C 13y ago
and have little or no memory of writing... that happened to me only a few weeks ago. Pretty darn scary.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> or the NULL-pointer are indeed mood Just FYI, the word you probably mean is 'moot'.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
All my servers run sshd as root, including the FreeBSD ones. Is that ok? Or do you mean that sshd drops privileges for the child after forking?
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by Nick_C 13y ago
One of the outcomes of various 9/11 reviews was the realisation that HUMINT had degraded as far as it had. The problem is that it is very expensive, both in time and money, and it has uncertain outcomes. The rise of technology, both i
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Thanks, that is incredibly interesting, especially the example at the end relating to facial recognition.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Elmore Leonard wrote "Djibouti" about the Somali pirate operations. He must have researched it pretty thoroughly because everything in the Economist article is in the book. If you want a nice thriller and, at the same time, get s
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by Nick_C 13y ago
When you have to use the java applet of the Control Panel in your browser to manage your VPS. If your sshd is not on port 22, typically the applet won't find it and you're screwed.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Indeed, and even if you haven't followed Egyptian history, you probably would be familiar with his wife Nefertiti (of the famous bust http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Nof
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Just to note it's priceusa.com.au .
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by Nick_C 13y ago
My father was a paleontologist, albeit 30 years ago. I think what is happening with human fossils is that we have/are reaching a critical mass of knowledge that allows us to pinpoint with greater accuracy where to look. The thing sta
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Here, I usually ask people not to conflate the existence of a God with creationism. (Perhaps that is a particular U.S. thing?) Ditto with a literal interpretation of the Bible. I was raised and schooled in a religious environment, and no-
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Neither link disproves his point, which is about pre-modern life. His claim is what I've always understood too, admittedly without questioning it. But in my university studies of art history, it is common to read about Renaissance mas
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I really like ML. It is simple at face value, but with pattern matching and lambdas becomes very powerful. I haven't done any big projects with it though, so ymmv. I did a course early this year that used it to introduce functional p
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> interest rate doesn't change You're probably thinking of the coupon rate. The yield is a different thing.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Up to this time, I believe the Aust. govt has refused to endorse this clause. Now that the new Foreign Minister is involved, who knows. I'm not optimistic on this or on copyright extensions. I think we will be sold these under the b
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> Companies are not allowed to label the absence of irrelevant things for good reason Well, they are allowed to here in Australia. For example, we have milk marketed as "permeate-free" despite permeate being a natural milk pr
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Aviation. No commercial pilot or airline would fly without a weather forecast for their destination. The public transport system, let alone cargo, would shut down.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Try ssh'ing into it and see if you can get a shell. `xbacklight -get` shows the current backlight setting. Also, when resuming I often get this in /var/log/syslog: "ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial b
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by Nick_C 13y ago
We've got a world-famous scientist speaking at a global conference over here. A few hours before he was due to speak he was told he could not, due to the furlough. It's crazy, because he's already here!
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I agree it leaks far too much, especially for niche operating systems like Linux. For Firefox, I use the "Modify Headers" add-on to remove the extra info, so UserAgent=Mozilla/Firefox and AcceptLanguage=en. http:/&#x2F
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by Nick_C 13y ago
There are free unix shells out there, google will find them. Don't expect anything fancy, but you will be able to try all the commands talked about here. To connect to the shell from Windows, you can use the Putty program (google for
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Me too. Then I read the info, it gives an interesting historical perspective of why tsort came about. On a system with GNU utils installed: info coreutils 'tsort invocation'
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by Nick_C 13y ago
That's one of the most engaging presentations I've seen for years. I laughed out loud at slide 38. Thanks for the link.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
On a side note, does anyone know what ~B actually does? Does it send a SIGINT to the remote terminal? What does ssh mean by the phrase "send a BREAK to a remote system"? I've tried to use it without success to kill a runawa
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Concur. I had to switch away from Chrome because of its heavy heavy use of cache that slows the entire browser down when you have several dozen tabs open.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I loathe that behaviour, it was one of the things that bugged me about Chrome. If I close a tab, I want the focus to go back to the previously viewed tab, not the previous tab in the z-stack.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I can think of two business reasons straight off: 1) a department changed its name, or 2) the department used to have employees but is now defunct, such as the Typing Pool department. My point is, to try to be aware of the assumptions that
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Nice, I liked how I could see the relative attractiveness change as the bodies moved. What was the shading on the bodies for? At first I thought the bright side might be pointed towards the centre of mass of the other two, but it seems not
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I feel your pain. I had a new-ish car I was taking on its first road trip, about 4000 kms into the middle of Australia and back. Ten kilometres out of Melbourne, and a car coming the other way threw up a small stone which hit the windscr

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